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There is some debate regarding who first built motte and bailey fortifications on the site. Some researchers believe it was the half-brother of William the Conqueror Robert, Count of Mortain, while others suggest it was…

Prudhoe Castle, Prudhoe, Northumberland, England, UK - NE42 6NA

Prudhoe Castle is a tower keep fortification made up of two baileys (courtyards) with the keep and other buildings, including a gatehouse and barbican, enclosed within a curtain wall and outlying protective ditches. The name…

Alloa Park, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, FK10 1PP

Alloa Tower is one of the largest surviving medieval tower houses in Scotland although it has been modified over the centuries and now its medieval exterior encases an 18th century mansion. The outer fields and…

A828, Appin, Argyll and Bute PA38 4BL, UK

Castle Stalker is a remote tower house located on the small scenic island of Loch Linne. The name ‘Stalker’ is derived from the Gaelic word Stalcaire, meaning “hunter” or “falconer”. Castle Stalker is completely authentic…

Unnamed Road, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire GL10, UK

Woodchester Mansion is an incomplete Gothic Revival Country House commissioned by William Leigh in 1857 and designed by Benjamin Bucknall with references to earlier concept work by Augustus Pugin and Charles Francis Hansom. Located in…

The old Severn Bridge is a motorway suspension connection that crosses the Rivers Wye and Severn, near to Aust, a small village in South Gloucestershire. It was the original major crossing of the Severn by…

Walls Drive, Ravenglass, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, CA18 1SR

Also known as “Walls Castle”, Ravenglass Bath House is the remains of an ancient 2nd century Roman bath house in northern England. The 30-metre-long building is located just north of the site of a Roman…

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